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“Well, when you’re Mariah Carey you’re one of the most coveted women in the world so I can’t blame Tanaka for having a crush on her,” Stella told E! News. “Tanaka is definitely charming.”

Stella added of Mariah, “I think he might dance his way into her heart.”

Meanwhile, Tanaka says his crush is anything but new. “I’ve always had a thing for Mariah. I love her so much,” he recently told E! News. “Just make sure you tune in to the show and you’ll see kind of how everything happens.”

As for what makes their relationship so special, Tanaka added, “Something connected with us back in the day and there was just a mutual admiration. She saw something in me that I actually didn’t recognize at first, from that it was over. It was set in history that we were gonna be connected some way, some how.”

Watch a brand-new episode of Mariah’s World Sunday, Jan. 1 at 9 p.m., only on E!